A Washington Post columnist said Monday that Biden's 'ad-lib on Putin wasn't a gaffe.'
President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the debt ceiling during an event in the State Dining Room of the White House, Monday, Oct. 4 in Washington."Let me further stipulate that perhaps a White House sound engineer should cut Biden’s microphone whenever he strays from prepared remarks," Robinson wrote.
The columnist said Biden was"overly passionate" and"insufficiently diplomatic," but that it was"hardly" a massive gaffe. Robinson went on to detail the crimes Putin is continuing to commit against Ukrainians. He said other world leaders were"surely thinking." The author noted the White House's clarification of Biden's comments, which argued that Biden was not calling for a regime change. "But while it will never be possible for the United States and its European allies to ignore Russia, it is hard to imagine how Biden and future presidents will be able to constructively deal with Putin," Robinson said.
After the White House walked back Biden's original comments about Putin, the president said on Monday that people like Putin"shouldn't be running countries.""The President’s point was that Putin cannot be allowed to exercise power over his neighbors or the region. He was not discussing Putin’s power in Russia, or regime change," the White House previously said after the president's speech in Warsaw.
U.S. President Joe Biden, flanked by Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan and senior aide Steve Ricchetti, holds a meeting on infrastructure with labor and business leaders at the White House in Washington, U.S. July 22, 2021. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst"I'm not walking anything back. The fact of the matter is, I was expressing the moral outrage I felt toward the way Putin is dealing and the actions of this man, which is just brutality," Biden continued.
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